Make a statement with your food purchasing habits by buying products displaying the Blue Tick - it’s your guarantee of cruelty-free food.

The Blue Tick is the Royal New Zealand SPCA’s national certification programme that identifies the animal food product it adorns as being produced in a manner that is guaranteed to be cruelty-free. 

Choosing products displaying the Blue Tick logo enables consumers to confidently select humanely-produced food.

This means that the animals have a good life and have been allowed the “Five Freedoms”:

• Freedom from Hunger and Thirst, by having ready access to fresh water and a diet to maintain full health and vigour.

• Freedom from Discomfort, by being provided with an appropriate environment including shelter and a comfortable resting area.

• Freedom from Pain, Injury or Disease, by prevention, rapid diagnosis and treatment.

• Freedom to Express Natural Behaviour, by being provided with sufficient space, proper facilities and the company of the animal’s own kind.

• Freedom from Fear and Distress, by ensuring conditions and treatment which avoid mental suffering.

To earn the right to display the Blue Tick, producers must meet the SPCA’s rigorous welfare standards and undergo thorough auditing by qualified and independent inspectors.

Free range and barn laid eggs were first to be accredited under the scheme in 2001, and in 2007 free range and ECO Barn (free farmed) pork and pork products were added.

Blue Tick products:
• Freedom Farms www.freedomfarms.co.nz
• Harmony Foods www.harmony.co.nz
• Henergy Eggs www.henergy.co.nz, www.uncagedhens.co.nz
• Sunset Eggs www.sunsetfreerange.co.nz
• Benniks eggs www.bennikseggs.co.nz
• Kirkfield Family Farm

Blue Tick products are available at all good supermarkets and grocery stores nationwide.